Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature

8vo, vii, 126pp., bibliography, notes, index. Navy-blue cloth, stamped in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Clifford Harper (priced £15.00 to front flap).

Signed by Author to title page.

The 1991 Clarendon Lectures delivered at Oxford University, focussing on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. Writers discussed include Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, E. J. Pratt, Marian Engel, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwan, with the emphasis on stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions, fiction and fact, and the weirdness of nature.